His book represents the attempt to navigate the emotional riptides of the death of his son and the violent attempt to stop the official counting of electoral ballots that would give the presidential election to Joe Biden.Īs he left his son’s grave and stepped into the breach in Washing ton, Raskin felt that what he calls his natural inclination to be constitutionally optimistic might be a path to self-delusion in the face of a “violent authoritarianism and fascism by autocrats and demagogues, and the mortal threats of depression, despondency and despair.” in an event sponsored by Fairwinds Counseling Center, to raise awareness about mental health. Raskin will speak at the Unitarian Church Wednesday, Aug. I felt it very much in my chest, in my heart.” I felt a lot of anger and I felt a lot of shock and felt determined to get to the bottom of these events and get past them. I felt as if already the very worst thing that could happen had happened to me. 6, I began to experience all these emotions, but fear was not one of them. “I guess it is about us all trying to find our way back from these wrenching and shocking times we live in,” Raskin said in an interview this week. The book began as a love letter to his son, and grew into a love letter to democracy. “Never before had I felt so equidistant, so vacillating, between the increasingly unrecognizable place called life and the suddenly intimate and expanding jurisdiction called death,” Raskin wrote in his book, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.” The very next day his father found himself taking cover during the worst attack on the American seat of democracy since the War of 1812. 31, 2020, 25-year-old Tommy Raskin took his own life. Email: July 28, 2022) The cold facts of any death never tell the true story.

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